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November 2012


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Season for Sharing 

As the holiday season approaches, our thoughts turn to those who have less to celebrate. Many families face additional hardships during the holidays when children aren’t benefiting from regular meal programs. A budget that doesn’t meet basic needs at the best of times is put under more strain as children make their gift lists. Families and single adults living on a low income are often isolated at this time of year because they can’t afford to participate in the festivities around them. After paying for shelter, the average person who comes to one of our food banks has just $5.83 per day left over for all other expenses. That’s not even enough to take public transit to a holiday meal with friends.

Thankfully, the holidays are also the season for sharing and we are grateful that we can count on you, friends and supporters of Daily Bread Food Bank. This is the time of year when we replenish our coffers in preparation not only for the increased need during the holidays, but in anticipation for the months ahead. Our goal is to have enough food to fill hampers for every person who comes to us in need. Our clients may come to the food bank once, twice, or three times a month. Some people need help for a few months and others might need us longer. With your donation – nutritious food or a financial contribution – we will be able to provide for over 66,000 visits a month to food banks across the city.

You’re making a difference!

More than a band-aid solution, your gift gives hope for a way out of hunger and poverty. People who need job skills are finding employment after training in our kitchens. Our garden provides fresh produce for our kitchen and community for our clients. Mothers-to-be are getting the basic foods required to give their babies a healthy start. Children in schools are benefiting from the meal and snack programs that we support, as are families in shelters. Thousands of people who come to us for food are receiving the warm embrace of support and guidance that will help them find their way past their hardship. 

This is the difference that we are making in neighbourhoods across the city. You are making it possible. Please join us at our many holiday events (click on the links at right for more information), and give generously this holiday season.

Thank you.

 


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Room 15's Adventure
by Varisara Thanomphan

On Tuesday September 25th, room 15 and room 12 went on a field trip to the Food Bank. We went there because we wanted to fight hunger by volunteering. We volunteered by sorting huge stacks of cereal boxes. We had a host named Lauren, she was amazing. She assigned some people to check the best before date, and that was the first group’s responsibility, then group two had to put the cereal boxes in larger boxes and group three had to fold the boxes, folding the boxes must have been hard for them.

Then we went to the Kitchen, “It smelled really good in the Kitchen,” Linda said. We went in and we saw big pots, the pots were there for sauces and soups to be made. The Food Bank cooks 4,500 meals a week that must mean lots of work for them. After that we walked by an indoor Supermarket for people who are in need of food. You don’t have to pay for anything.


It was an amazing day and everybody should be happy for what they did “It was so fun to be there,” said Wendy. Hope to go there again.

An excerpt from student Varisara Thanomphan’s visit to Daily Bread Food Bank with her class. To read Varisara’s full story, click here! If you are a teacher interested in bringing your class in to volunteer, please contact learn@dailybread.ca for more information about our Youth Program. Spaces fill up fast, and we’ve started booking classes for January. The minimum age to volunteer in the warehouse is 8.



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Photo courtesy of Toronto District School Board

New community meal program launches in high school

A new weekly meal program has opened in Sir Robert L. Borden Business and Technical Institute serving the Kingston/Galloway/Danzig neighbourhood, a result of an innovative partnership between the Toronto District School Board and Daily Bread Food Bank.

Students from Borden’s Culinary Program will plan, prepare and serve nutritious, hot meals with the additional help of a trainee from Daily Bread`s Food Services Training Program, and a number of Daily Bread’s cook instructors. The program officially launched in early November and the meal program is fast becoming a busy place.

“Borden students and staff are very proud to be the first school to partner with Daily Bread to support our community,” said Anthony Hack, Principal, Sir Robert L. Borden BTI. “School should be about more than just learning from a textbook, and this opportunity allows students to take what happens in the classroom and make a real and relevant positive impact in the community.”

“It`s a win-win situation for everyone. Daily Bread is able to open a program in an area that needs it. It`s a great educational opportunity as well as an opportunity for the students at Robert Borden to give back, and people struggling with hunger are able to get a nutritious meal,” said Gail Nyberg, Daily Bread’s executive director. “We hope that many other schools in Toronto will be able to see the benefit of providing educational opportunities for students at the same time as valuable services for their own communities.”



 
 


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Holiday Drive Events

It’s going to be a busy season! Below are some great events happening, with proceeds going to support Daily Bread’s Holiday Drive.

98.1 CHFI Holiday Food Drive

Where: Longo's Leaside

When: Thursday, November 29

5 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Find out more.

 

CP Holiday Train

Where: 750 Runnymede Road

When: December 1

5:00 p.m.

CP’s Holiday Train rolls in to Toronto. A family event with musical guests to raise food and money for Daily Bread.

Find out more.

 

CBC Toronto's Sounds of the Season

Where: Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street West

When: Friday, December 7

5 a.m. to 6:30 p.m

Special musical guests, live radio shows, CBC personalities and silent auction!

Find out more.

 

Daily Bread’s TTC Challenge

Where: TTC stations across Toronto

When: Monday December 10 and Tuesday December 11

6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Keep an eye out at TTC stations for Daily Bread volunteers as they ask you to spare a little extra jingle and make a donation to Daily Bread.

 

HoHoTO

Where:  Mod Club

When: Thursday, December 13

Starts at 7 p.m. Tickets on sale now.

Find out more.

 

Citytv’s Breakfast Television Tree Sale with Home Depot

Where: Yonge-Dundas Square

When: December 14

Starting at 5:30 a.m.

Christmas trees for a minimum donation of $10!

 

Citytv’s Annual Spirit of the Season

Where: Sheraton Centre, (across from Nathan Phillips Square)

When: December 21

5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Join Breakfast Television and CityNews as they raise food and funds for Daily Bread.



 




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